A piece on data visualization that mentions LibValue on the side (the ARL Statistics interactive chart towards the end is lot’s of fun):
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/not-just-another-pretty-picture/
and a general piece on ROI
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/are-you-worth-it-what-return-on-investment/
Have libraries used an institutional repository as a “container” for library-related statistics, current or retrospective, and/or dumped sources of raw data into a web-based application, such as Nesstar, for collaborative viewing/sharing/manipulating within the institution? I have started exploring the idea of the IR as container, but we need to formulate a set of guidelines to [...]
Tagged Add new tag, data repositoryFor those of you involved in reporting the annual ARL statistics, we are wondering if you include or exclude accesses by search engine spiders when tabulating item 11a (# of times digital collection items accessed) for the Supplementary Statistics. Thanks for the input!
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Ray Lyons’ Weblog
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So I want to write a bit about what statisticians call measurement error. And I might as well start right off with a rather advanced idea: Measurement is about reducing error. We try to be systematic in our measures to increase accuracy, and minimize error in the [...]
by Marie Kennedy
Sending cudos to ARL for making the ARL Statistics publicly available –
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Libraries spend a lot of time gathering data to report back to parent institutions and membership organizations. Where does all that data end up and how do you get your hands on it? If you’re a member of the Association [...]
ARL Statistics 2006-2007 Published (Dec. 18, ‘08)
ARL Health Sciences Library Statistics 2006–2007 Published (Dec. 18, ‘08)
ARL Law Library Statistics 2006–2007 Published (Dec. 18, ‘08)
Among other things, what we really want form an integrated library system …
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include a robust reporting mechanism; give me the ARL Generate Statistics Button (2 votes)
The ARL Statistics 2007-08 mailing is available at:
http://www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/arlstats/08statmail.shtml
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a webcast on the findings of the ARL Ad Hoc Task Force on Best Practices for Counting Serial Titles and the way the work of the group has informed changes in the ARL Statistics 2007–08 survey. The webcast will be [...]
Hello Assessment Community:
The current issue of the LibQUAL+® Update is now available online at: http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/LQUpdate_October2008_Final.pdf.
Highlights in this issue:
Survey information 2008-2009
2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO
Spotlight On: Northeastern University
Plans for the 2010 Library Assessment Conference
LibQUAL+® Publications: Papers, Posters, & Presentations
and much more!
Please feel free to contact the LibQUAL+® team at libqual@arl.org with any questions [...]
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In the same way that Ford couldn’t produce ¾ million cars per day without standards, if a library needed to fulfill 750,000 ILL requests per year, there is no way that one could do so without streamlining the process to reduce the transaction costs of each request and fulfillment. According to the most [...]
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